I was a surrogate mum to a parrot chick to save it from extinction
Conservationist Marianela Masat made history when she helped raise one of the first red-and-green macaw chicks born in the wild in Argentina in over a century.
As a child Marianela Masat was often to be found climbing trees near her home in Argentina, but it was when she saw a film about the effects of climate change that she knew what she wanted to do with her life – to help save the natural world she loved so much. In 2020 Marianela and her team at Rewilding Argentina made history when three red-and-green macaw chicks were born in the wild – for the first time in over 150 years. And, as Clayton Conn reports, she even became a surrogate mother to a chick when wildfires engulfed their habitat.
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Additional clips of the red and green macaws and their chicks came courtesy of the Rewilding Argentina Foundation.
(Photo: Marianela Masat with a red-and-green macaw chick. Credit: Rewilding Argentina Foundation)
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